tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28492862740154048032024-02-02T01:57:26.176-08:00Love, learn, live, growUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2849286274015404803.post-12466910057806245572014-05-28T23:26:00.001-07:002014-05-28T23:26:09.264-07:00CLIL Unit : The weather<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this article you will find all the main features of the Unit CLIL I have been preparing during a course on CLIL, Although the title of the Unit is <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/78472730/MP8/NF1.%20WEATHER/CLIL%20Unit_Meteo_Meritxell.pdf">"The weather" (see basic information)</a>, it is not only about weather, but also about meteorology and shipping forecasts since it is addressed to the students in the <b>Upper Level training cycle on the maritime professional studies</b>. This Unit will be included as a Formative Nucleus in the Professional Module of Technical English.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The main learning outcomes of this Unit are:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To know the terms (in English) related to weather forecasts</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To know the terms and phenomena in meteorology such as weather state, warm fronts, isobars, pressures, meteorological stations, etc.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To know the characteristics and develop terms involved in the shipping forecasts (sea state, wind force, tides, etc.)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To inform about weather conditions at sea</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The contents will be organised in the different sessions that the Unit will have. At the end of each session, the students must deliver a task related to that session. These are the contents, with the timing, general information of each session and tasks:</span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Day 1. Weather forecasts. TASK: Writing a weather forecast</u></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A warm up on wikispaces to remember basic terms that they should already know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Terms to improve weather vocabulary and activities to do in pairs (scaffolding)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vocabulary acitivities online: reading, writing and listening (working with different skills).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reading some weather forecasts and answering questions</span><ul>
<li><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Day 2: What's the weather like? TASK: Giving advice and warning about weather state (Speaking)</u></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bad weather or good weather. Watching a video and answering some questions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Giving advice and warning : modal verbs</span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u style="background-color: white;">Day 3: Meteorological terms and phenomena. TASK: a listening about conditions and a speaking</u></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Making predictions: will and going to (grammar using slideshare or prezzi)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Conditional sentences and online activities to practise and learn the structures on their own or with the teacher's help (scaffolding).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Extra vocabulary about weather to practise the predictions and conditions.</span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Day 4: Navigational warnings. TASK: listening to navigational warning and writing some.</u></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Self study activities about navigational warnings and weather at sea, with explanations and glossary. To work individually at class, with the help of the teacher (and giving roles in the class, some students will have the role of assistants and the others students, so the assistants will have to help the others)</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><u>Day 5: Shipping forecasts. TASK: listening to a shipping forecast</u></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reading and listening about shipping forecasts, terms and the importance of understanding them and being able to give information about it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>FINAL TASK: deliver a weather glossary, all the activities on the notebook and doing a WRITTEN TEST and an ORAL TEST about all the contents of the Unit.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>You can download the <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/78472730/MP8/NF1.%20WEATHER/CLIL%20Unit_Meteo_MTR.pdf">complete Unit here.</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Students will be provided with a <a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/aiclemaritimeenglish">useful database of sources related to maritime English</a> shared in symbaloo. They will be able to use them during the Unit.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2849286274015404803.post-73128395712883484742014-05-25T08:02:00.000-07:002014-05-25T08:05:46.049-07:00My CLIL Unit. The weather<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After having worked hard on a very interesting course about CLIL methodology, I have created a Unit about <b>weather, meteorology and shipping forecasts</b> to work with my students of the Maritime High Studies (Vocational training).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although they need to work mainly with shipping forecasts, sea state and winds, as well as meteorological warnings contained in the SMCP (Standard Maritime Communication Phrases) of the IMO, they also have to work with language and grammar to strenghten the basis of their English.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A <span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2FxHAgn2VRuTVBPeDltWnB5QWc/edit?usp=sharing">summary of the Unit</a></b> </span>can be downloaded from the following link:</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As an <span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>introduction</b>,</span> they students will receive a contents presentation together with the first class with the introduction terms, as well as a <span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>warm up on a wikispace</b></span> created for this Unit.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <b> <a href="http://prezi.com/vtjrel6tnndf/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy">(contents and first class instructions)</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <b><a href="https://englishecnpc.wikispaces.com/What%27s+the+weather+like%3F">(Warm up on wikispaces. Students need to have an account and be tagged by the teacher)</a></b></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In order to write properly and establish <span style="color: #93c47d;"><b>grammar basis</b></span> related to the topic, a slideshare with an initial video explaining the differences between <a href="http://en.educaplay.com/en/learningresources/1368240/will_vs_going_to.htm">WILL and GOING to</a>, explanations and an activity.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A <b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><a href="http://en.educaplay.com/en/learningresources/1368221/making_predictions.htm">videoquiz</a></span></b> to practise grammar skills (first conditional) as well as listening skills. This activity will be a task to do individually.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are many other activities and sources that will be used in the Unit. Some of them are online tools that can be used by students and which are specialised on Maritime English. You will find the best source in the Maritime English <a href="http://mareng.utu.fi/learningtool/index.html">here</a>. The students will do the Unit of the weather of this program.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2849286274015404803.post-88841244808299212652014-04-18T11:27:00.000-07:002014-04-18T11:36:37.411-07:00Some funny sketches<div style="text-align: center;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2849286274015404803.post-13922039874751723992012-01-25T08:27:00.000-08:002012-01-25T08:27:26.923-08:00If I were rich... CONDITIONAL SENTENCES<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.unrestrictedarea.com/esl/First%20Conditional.pdf">1.- First conditional</a><br />
<a href="http://uczniowie.lo-zywiec.pl/%7Eang/cottage/files/other_grammar_points/CONDITIONAL_TYPE_II.pdf">2.- Second conditional</a><br />
<a href="http://bachiller.sabuco.com/ingles/eloy/2bach/conditio.pdf">3.- Conditionals. Grammar explanations and many activities to practise a lot!</a><br />
<a href="http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/if.htm">4.- Grammar exercises. Conditional sentences</a><br />
<a href="http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/conditional-sentences">5.- More about conditionals</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2849286274015404803.post-56488752310397252482012-01-25T08:22:00.000-08:002012-01-25T08:22:04.166-08:00GRAMMAR.- Future tense<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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1.- <a href="http://www.english-grammar-lessons.com/goingtofuture/menu.php">Activities GOING TO</a><br />
<a href="http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/future-1-will">More activities</a><br />
2.- <a href="http://www.english-grammar-lessons.com/willfuture/menu.php">Activities WILL</a><br />
3.- <a href="http://www.english-grammar-lessons.com/presentformsforfuture/menu.php">Activities SIMPLE PRESENT; PRESENT CONTINUOUS</a><br />
4.- <a href="http://www.saberingles.com.ar/exercises/103.html">Mixed activities</a> ; <a href="http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/future.htm">Mixed activities 2</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2849286274015404803.post-77221297566725927942012-01-15T06:07:00.000-08:002012-01-15T06:07:14.334-08:00GRAMMAR.- Have you ever...? Present perfect<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-perfect.html">Grammar and activities</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/present-perfect-simple-1">Test on present perfect</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2849286274015404803.post-39474621934341433532012-01-15T06:04:00.000-08:002012-01-15T06:04:54.540-08:00GRAMMAR.- Good! Better! The best!!!<div style="text-align: center;">
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a) <a href="http://www.ego4u.com/en/read-on/countries/usa/tour/los-angeles#exercises">Reading comprehension and comparatives</a></div>
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b) <a href="http://www.ego4u.com/en/read-on/countries/uk/tour/london#exercises">Reading. London</a></div>
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c) <a href="http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2065">Activities with pictures</a></div>
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d) <a href="http://www.better-english.com/grammar/comp2.htm">Multiple choice activity</a></div>
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e) <a href="http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/gr.comp.p.htm">Multiple choice 2</a><br />
f) <a href="http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/adjectives_adverbs/adjectives_comparison_as_as.htm">Comparison AS...AS</a><br />
g) <a href="http://jevalo.250x.com/comparison2.htm">Fill in the blanks activity</a><br />
h) <a href="http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/compsup2.html">Mixed activity</a><br />
i) <a href="http://www.english-4u.de/comparison_ex2.htm">Comparison</a><br />
<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2849286274015404803.post-42879166297077542322011-12-23T09:11:00.000-08:002011-12-23T09:11:24.630-08:00Christmas Greetings<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I wish you health, good luck, success and all that makes for happiness... today, tomorrow and always.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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<div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.5cm; margin-bottom: 0.4cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>**It is a simple act, but sometimes takes a lot of effort.</b></span></div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.5cm; margin-bottom: 0.4cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>A smile can cause boundaries to melt, hearts to warm up,</b></span></div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.5cm; margin-bottom: 0.4cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>and distances to reduce. </b></span></div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.5cm; margin-bottom: 0.4cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Why don’t we smile more often? Is it too tough to smile?</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.5cm; margin-bottom: 0.4cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>The answer lies in our attitude towards life.</b></span></div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.5cm; margin-bottom: 0.4cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>If we are more accepting of situations, we will be able to smile more easily.</b></span></div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.5cm; margin-bottom: 0.4cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"></div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.5cm; margin-bottom: 0.4cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Always wear a smile. Remember, without your smile,</b></span></div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.5cm; margin-bottom: 0.4cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>your attire is incomplete.**</b></span></div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.5cm; margin-bottom: 0.4cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><br />
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</div><ul><li><a href="http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/nouns_articles/article_the.htm">THE; exercise 1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/nouns_articles/article_the2.htm">THE; exercise 2</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/nouns_articles/article_a.htm">A/AN; exercise 3</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.world-english.org/articles.htm">Articles; exercise 4</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.bnv-bamberg.de/home/ulrich.koch/flg/englischinteraktiv/articles1.htm">Gap fill exercise</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.bnv-bamberg.de/home/ulrich.koch/flg/englischinteraktiv/articles4.htm">Gap fill exercise (a/an; the)</a></li>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="CA" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances.” W. Shakespeare</span></div><br />
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<ul><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butterfly_Circus"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on Wikipedia</span></a></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://dotsub.com/view/7b5f59aa-6339-4831-866c-d085988f52ec/viewTranscript/eng">Tapescript (part 1)</a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://dotsub.com/view/7b5f59aa-6339-4831-866c-d085988f52ec/viewTranscript/eng">Tapescript (part 2)</a></span></li>
<li><a href="http://itsjustmovies.com/10962"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Giving opinion</span></a></li>
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<div style="background-color: #f9f7f1; color: #414141; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2em; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Living in a society often focused solely on the materialistic, where money takes place of everything from morals to happiness, can be pretty exhausting and demoralizing. Yet, it doesn't have to be this way and just because millions of people around you ascribe to consuming away their days doesn't mean you need to join. In fact, opting out can be the perfect recipe for having a lovely day.</div><div style="background-color: #f9f7f1; color: #414141; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2em; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Whether you want to escape from the daily grind and embrace another way of seeing your world or you just want a little break from your everyday life, planning a lovely day can be the solution to overcoming your jaded outlook on what is, essentially, a very miraculous life. Here is how to restore a sense of wonder.</div><div style="background-color: #f9f7f1; color: #414141; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2em; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Here you have some steps and tips! </div><div style="background-color: #f9f7f1; color: #414141; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2em; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Have-a-Lovely-Day">Have a lovely day =) CLICK ON THIS LINK TO READ MORE</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2849286274015404803.post-85927784507590062132011-11-29T07:21:00.000-08:002011-11-29T07:21:33.351-08:00VIDEO: new sprite advertising campaignIDEAS, I HAVE MILLION... BUT YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT...<br />
The campaign has nine spots in total, it's an amazing and interesting campaign, full of inspirational words.<br />
This is one of the spots, in English.<br />
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</div><ol><li><a href="http://www.tinyteflteacher.co.uk/learning-english/grammar/exercises/past-continuous.html">Activity 1. Past continuous</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mrc.ltd.free.fr/PastContin.htm">Activity 2. Fill in the blanks</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.montsemorales.com/gramatica/Pastsimpastcontin.htm">Activity 3. Past simple or continuous?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://baladre.info/english/sedaviwebfront/pastsimpcont7.htm">Activity 4. Complete using past simple or continuous</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/past-progressive-3">Activity 5. Test!</a></li>
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</div><ul><li><a href="http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/irregular_verbs/mix.htm">Irregular verbs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/irregular_verbs/crossword_6_7.htm">Irregular verbs Crossword</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/irregular_verbs/mix3.htm">Irregular verbs 3</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/simple_past_mix.htm">Simple Past 1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.saberingles.com.ar/exercises/203.html">Simple Past 2</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-exercise-8.html">Simple Past 3</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/support-files/50_irregular_verbs_past_simple_part_1.pdf">Exercises PDF with answers. You can print them</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1678">Fill in the blanks exercise. Past simple text</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.isabelperez.com/cinderella.htm">Fill in the blanks. CINDERELLA</a></li>
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Instead of traditional advertising, they created an interactive campaign around the products. It's an interactive game and people have to watch 48 ads in order to catch the Swedish light. They can win some ikea products.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2849286274015404803.post-35371067920805865702011-11-22T03:20:00.000-08:002011-11-22T03:20:45.774-08:00LISTENING: comprehension activities to practise more (films)You have to click on the video, watch it and pay attention to it.<br />
Then you can answer the questions and check your answers.<br />
<a href="http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/">Webpage</a><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/nQwcXgB-DCI?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>a) The parents are moving to Antwerp in ..........................<br />
b) Why is the young man upset?<br />
c) How long had the parents been talking about moving before they finally decided to do it?<br />
d) How far will the parents be from the grandchild?<br />
e) How does the father refer to Antwerp?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2849286274015404803.post-35374320281006091652011-11-21T04:21:00.000-08:002011-11-22T03:19:08.275-08:00GRAMMAR: adjectives -ed / -ing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnDHbvJEX9_l3CRFfroVF4hglxYRgdgE2foADIPTbClKKYhplWuXh1UZJvflNtM9V3vFFCHuILD0j62js7Oc9sqbaWoEZ2rGsZF7_N3BLrsNA_d-tmT4LOiUN5ikJd4gF9ruM4z7IixsQ3/s1600/adjectives+2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnDHbvJEX9_l3CRFfroVF4hglxYRgdgE2foADIPTbClKKYhplWuXh1UZJvflNtM9V3vFFCHuILD0j62js7Oc9sqbaWoEZ2rGsZF7_N3BLrsNA_d-tmT4LOiUN5ikJd4gF9ruM4z7IixsQ3/s320/adjectives+2.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<ol><li><a href="http://www.better-english.com/grammar/adjing.htm">Matching exercise</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ww2.collegeem.qc.ca/prof/epritchard/boreding.htm">Use the correct form</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.clafoti.com/imagenes12/adj_ing_ed_2.htm">Explanations, examples, vocabulary and activity (I recommend you only to read the English part, since the translation isn't quite good)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.macmillanenglish.com/uploadedFiles/Inspiration/insp2_ws11.pdf">Exercises. PDF worksheet</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.autoenglish.org/gr.ad.inged.p.htm">Fill in the gaps</a></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This video shows the commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Big deal, dots, dropped out, quit, unwed, popped out, relented, naively, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Figure it out, pretty scary, stumbled, settle, gut, fired, falling out</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After watching the video, answer these questions: </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A) What are the three stories Steve Jobs talks about?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">B) How do you join the dots of your life?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">C) How does Steve got his dots joined?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">D) What could be a one – word to describe his life experience?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">E) What does “death” meant to Steve Jobs?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">- A quote he read when he was 17:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">- Some advices he gave on his speech:</span><br />
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</div><ol><li><a href="http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/simcon.htm">Grammar explanations Simple vs Continuous</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.world-english.org/simplepresentpresentcontinuous.htm">Simple or Continuous??01</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs1.htm">Simple or Continuous??02</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/66.html">Simple or Continuous??03</a></li>
<li><a href="http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/sp_or_pc.html">Simple or Continuous??04</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/simple_present_progressive3.htm">Simple or Continuous??05</a></li>
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<li>Tales in English: <a href="http://useit.vn/useit/images/stories/flash/Fairy%20Tale/30.04.08/poordog.swf">Poor dog</a>. / <a href="http://useit.vn/useit/images/stories/flash/Fairy%20Tale/robinhood.swf">Robin Hood</a>. / <a href="http://useit.vn/useit/images/stories/flash/Fairy%20Tale/30.04.08/RedBlackAnts.swf">The black ants</a>.</li>
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<li>Listening practice and activities >> <a href="http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/stories/interesting-most-boring-man-world">The interesting most boring man in the world</a></li>
<li>An audio soap! <a href="http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/big-city-small-world">Big city small world</a></li>
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